Jennifer Warren is Managing Partner at Pure Private Equity based in United Arab Emirates.  Prior to co-founding Pure, Jennifer served as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Management for Treasury & Global Markets at First Gulf Bank in Abu Dhabi.  She previously held senior leadership positions in New York and London at Barclays Capital, Lloyds Banking Group and Lehman Brothers.  Jennifer began her career working in management consulting at Arthur Andersen and KPMG.  Jennifer holds a BSc in Business Administration from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Improbable is a brand and PR agency for challengers, underdogs and misfits.

This is an agency for the companies – be them startups, SMEs or large companies – that find themselves in that inflection point where innovation in everything – from product development to operations and up to business strategy and communication – is key to their survival / growth.

The agency works with 12 companies from 3 continents and 6 different industries – ranging from e-commerce to IT and up to digital media and edtech.

Maarid specializes in eCommerce fraud prevention.

He started his career with Amazon Payments in the Globally renowned Transaction Risk Monitoring Service Unit protecting hundreds of small U.S based Amazon merchants from potential fraud attacks worth millions of dollars.

In an attempt to diversify his skills, he quit his comfortable position at Amazon & made the move to multicultural Dubai and was immediately deployed to take up the new payments department in Rocket Internet’s Namshi.com – Middle east’s biggest online fashion store. During his tenure at Namshi, he spearheaded the creation of SOP’s for payment monitoring, Chargeback process, managing dealings with Payment Gateway and over saw improvement in multiple micro projects.

After Joining PayFort, one of the first steps Maarid took was to completely revamp the way the Risk team operates introducing new SLA’s, KPI’s & SOP’s for various processes, reducing manual effort at each step. Now, managing over 1000 clients risk profiles & fraud prevention strategies, delivering training from startups to enterprises and initiating projects on a regular basis, Maarid likes to give himself leeway to explore exiting new opportunities.